[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#914615: Bug#914615: Bug#914615: closed by Mechtilde Stehmann <mechtilde at debian.org> (reply to mechtilde at debian.org) (914615-done at bugs.debian.org)

[Mechtilde Stehmann]

Hello,

Am 26.01.19 um 14:44 schrieb Mechtilde:
> Hello Jeremy,
> 
> Am 26.01.19 um 14:04 schrieb Jeremy Bicha:
>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 2:16 AM Mechtilde <ooo at mechtilde.de> wrote:
>>> there is no*tbsync package in the Ubuntu repo. there is no need to
>>> define a dependency to xul-ext-lightning.
>>
>> Yes, but that's *because* of this bug.
>>
>> The package is in disco-proposed but we don't let packages in to
>> Ubuntu that have unsatisfiable dependencies:
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tbsync
>>
>> See https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/update_excuses.html#tbsync
>> (large page so takes a few moments to load).
>>
>> I'd be happy to submit merge proposals to fix this bug.
> 
> Then you can do a separate package for Ubuntu yourself. Take the sources
> and pack it. The same is done for lightnicng which has also a different
> name.
> 
> For Lightning Ubuntu use a different name than in Debian. Why should i
> change anything?

I cannot control that webext-tbsync works with the Thunderbird/lightning
versions in the different Ubuntu versions. Esp because of the different
update policy for main and universe.

In former time that also was the reason why I couldn't upload any
extension to Ubuntu.

> kind regards
> 
> 

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Mechtilde Stehmann
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